I'm all caught up!

Well sort of. Today instead of doing the Yoga, I decided to do the cardio workout. Pat did it this morning and said it was a great work out so I decided to give it a try and MAN was it hard! I feel great now though. I was going to attempt to do the ab ripper afterwards since I missed it yesterday along with arms and shoulders but I'm whooped. Maybe I'll do it tonight, if not, there's always tomorrow (and it's on tomorrow's agenda).

I am feeling good!!!

Day 10

Well I missed my workout on day 10 (yesterday) so I am supposed to do yoga today and I was supposed to do arms and back yesterday. Originally I was going to do my arm workout while the kids napped and my yoga workout after I get home from work tonight so I could be caught back up but I think instead of doing that I'm going to do the cardio workout today.

To my surprise, even though I have not been doing all that great with my diet, I got on the scale this morning and realized I have lost a total of 3.6 pounds so far!!! I'm excited about that.

Day 9

Today was Plyometrics and I actually made it through the entire workout and get this....without throwing up! I was not able to do all the reps of each exercise but I did make it through the entire 60 minute workout. It was hard and my legs feel like jello but I'm going to continue on. Tomorrow is arms and back.

YIKES

Day 8, we basically are starting all over again with the workouts. We do the same workouts each day of the week for the first three weeks so today was arms and back. I feel like each of my arms weighs 100 pounds. It was a good workout but I am wiped out and ready for bed.

I thought I'd upload some photos from the end of week 1. I am going to try to upload new photos each monday so that I can see my progress or lack there of and so that it keeps pushing me to stick with this even though I want to give up and eat junk and drink soda, I am going to press on. I don't want to continue looking like I do. Did I mention the fact that I look like I'm about 7 months pregnant? :o( It's gonna change

Day of rest

Well today we had the option to either take a day off or do stretching, so we chose to do the stretching to stay with our routine. This made for day number 7 in a row of working out. Today wasn't really a workout but it helped tremendously and I feel great!

I decided that I'm going to weigh and measure myself once a week and since I weight and measured myself last Sunday, that meant that I was due up to do the same today. I have lost 1 pound, 1.5 inches around my waist, 1 inch off my chest, 0.5 inches off of my hips and 0.8% body fat. I know it doesn't seem like much but it's encouraging to see any kind of loss after just one week. I am excited! Tomorrow we start it all over again and I work from 10-3:30 and then I have class from 6-10, so we'll see how it goes tomorrow.

Stay tuned.....

Kenpo X

Today was Kenpo and I have to say that it was BY FAR my FAVORITE. I was able to keep up with the entire workout and I LOVED it! I am exhausted, especially since I was up at 6 am, worked 8 hours, went to church, went shopping and then came home and did my workout. It's now 11:20 pm and I am trying to relax a few mintues before I go take a shower and crash. I was so tired before I did my workout but I'm so glad that I did it anyway.

Pat has lost just about 10 pound this past week and I have lost a whopping 1, but I'm going to change up the diet a little bit to try to follow the P90x diet a little closer instead of the weight watchers and see if that helps. Tomorrow I'm going to measure myself (waist, hips, thigh(s), chest and for me ankle. I know what you're thinking...ankle, really?!?! YES! Ever since I got pregnant with Declan and had preeclampsia, I grew into some cankles (for those of you who don't know what that is, it is where it looks like you have no ankle because your legs get so big that it just goes from your calf right into your food) and haven't been able to get rid of them no matter how hard I try. Okay, it's obvious that I haven't tried too hard in the past, but I'm determined this time.

Since Pat has been doing this with me, it's been great. I love the fact that we're trying to change our lifestyle so that we can be healthier and look and feel better. I can't wait until we're done with these 90 days so that I can compare my before pictures with my after pictures. Even Declan is trying to eat healthy and exercise...he thinks he's Tony Horton (the trainer on our P90x dvds) and tells us if we're not doing it right or reminding us that we need to breathe. What a cute little trainer to have!

Day 5...I feel the burn

Today was tough. It was back and legs. My legs were already sore from doing the workout on Tuesday and then today was a TON of squats and lunges...OWWWW! I didn't do as many as I would have liked but I stuck with it and I didn't have to refund my food either which was a plus. I'm getting a little discouraged in the weight loss department because even though I am working out and I've been doing well and sticking to my points on weight watchers, I'm not losing pounds as quickly as I think I should. So along with all the squats and lunges, we also did a lot of pull ups which are hard for me anyway but I was impressed that I could do a couple more each time today than I could on Monday, so that was good! We also had to do ab ripper again after 50 minutes of intense leg and back workouts we did 15 minutes of ab ripper and I was definitely feeling it today. On some of the exercises today I could feel my back wanting to give me trouble so I had to keep taking breaks even though I felt like endurance wise I could have kept going. I don't want to push it too much because if I hurt my back I won't be able to do any of it. That's it for now.

Tomorrow I work 7am-3:30pm so I won't be able to do my workout until tomorrow night, I will let you know how it goes because I know you're all dying to find out ;)